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Description: | George Uppleby of Barrow was a magistrate and chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Lindsey.
Most of the entries in the notebook relate to the proceedings held at Kirton.
Notes on reverse of flyleaf:
Mr Goulton of Walcot qualified as a magistrate in 1773.
George Uppleby qualified as a magistrate for the Parts of Lindsey at Caistor Midsummer Sessions, 1788.
The volume includes entries relating to the following sessions. These are not the full minutes of the sessions, but notes concerning certain cases.
Gainsborough Sessions, 7 Oct 1788.
Includes the case of Michael Beel of Halton, who was ordered to pay 9d per week towards the support of his aged mother.
Gainsborough Sessions, 24 April 1789.
Caistor Sessions, 14 Jul 1789.
Gainsborough Sessions, 6 Oct 1789.
Gainsborough Sessions, 16 Apr 1790.
Kirton Sessions, 5 Oct 1792.
Kirton Sessions, 20 Jan 1795.
Includes the case of Hannah and Elizabeth Brown, who were indicted as "Common Cheats" and transported for 7 years. "The Evidence produced against the above persons was fully satisfactory, and more notorious and infamous Imposters never before appeared in a Court of Justice."
Old Bailey Sessions, Sept 1795.
Kirton Sessions, 7 Oct 1796.
Kirton Sessions, 5 Oct 1798.
Kirton Sessions, 29 Jan 1799.
Kirton Sessions, 19 July 1799.
Kirton Sessions, 11 Oct 1799.
Includes the case of Elizabeth Taylor, housekeeper to William Hutton of Gate Burton, who was sentenced to be transported for 7 years for stealing household items to the value of 10d.
Caistor Sessions, Oct 1799.
35 shopkeepers in Caistor, Barrow, Goxhill and other villages were convicted of having bad weights.
Kirton Sessions, 21 Jan 1800.
Kirton Sessions, 29 April 1800.
Includes the case of Samuel Titterton of Wroot, an overseer of the poor, who was convicted of cruelty to Elizabeth Lyndal, a pauper in his charge.
Kirton Sessions, 18 Jul 1800.Kirton Sessions, 20 Jan 1801.
Kirton Sessions, 21 Apr 1801.
Kirton Sessions, 17 Jul 1801.
Kirton Sessions, 9 Oct 1801.
Louth Sessions, 13 Oct 1801.
Only mentions the case of John Parker, who was sentenced to be transported for 7 years for stealing a quantity of beans.
Doncaster Sessions, 20 Jan 1802.
Only mentions the case of William Birks and John Latham of Sykehouse, Yorkshire, who removed a pauper by the name of Thornton and left him to die on the streets of Doncaster.
Kirton Sessions, 4 May 1802.
Kirton Sessions, 8 Oct 1802.
Kirton Sessions, 18 Jan 1803.
Kirton Sessions, 15 Jul 1803.
Kirton Sessions, 17 Jan 1804.
Kirton Sessions, 17 April 1804.
Kirton Sessions, 18 Jan 1805.
Kirton Sessions, Easter 1805.
Kirton Sessions, 21 Jan 1806.
Includes the case of Edward Cobb of Sudbrooke, who was sentenced to be transported for 7 years for stealing 3 pecks of wheat and a white fowl from Obadiah Battersby of Reepham.
Kirton Sessions, 20 Jan 1807.
Glanford Brigg Sessions, 24 Jan 1807. Newspaper cutting only.
Kirton Sessions, 17 Jan 1809.
Kirton Sessions, 6 Oct 1809.
Kirton Sessions, 16 Jan 1810.
Kirton Sessions, 13 July 1810.
Enclosures:
Letter from Richard Ellison to George Uppleby.Hopes that he has recovered from a serious attack of gout: "As it was with real concern that I left you so much indisposed at Kirton..." Reports that he has been in considerable pain himself: "I am satisfied it is something wrong in Mrs Dunn's culinary utensils...."
Sudbrooke Holme, 21 Jan 1792.
Loose legal notes and newspaper cuttings. 16 items. | Temporal: | 1773-1810 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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